dirty wars

what the infotainment does not tell about war on terror

20th century

Argentina

Israel

21st century

Russia

< 2005 Chechnya The Dirty War 2005

  • 43:00 “I was naive before. I thought that Europe and Bush’s America are real democracies. Countries which we take as example. Later I understood: It’s not their interest. They just don’t care that this nation is destroyed. A nation with unique way of living that could mean something to the rest of the world. So now our tactics will change.”
  • 45:00 “What started as a fight for independence by a small republic could spill out way beyond it’s borders. The war is now helping to feed the wider Jihadish movement and is endangering the west as well as russia.”
  • 47:00 tete a tete Schröder Putin Bush

Iraq

Syria

US covert wars under Obama’s regime

Scahill is author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, 2007). Nation Books will released Scahill’s second book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, on April 23, 2013.

< Dirty Wars: Terror Begets Terror | Jeremy Scahill Breaks the Set – intro interview on RT (26m) “we have a bankrupt media culture when it comes to covering the impact of our wars”

  • 12:00 Journalists should actually be people who are not friends of the people who they report of. They should ask questions to the powerful
  • 14:00 Where you die matters – the press would not talk about people who die because of their working conditions.

< Hear Jeremy Scahill speak about his acclaimed new book, Dirty Wars, on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at NJ Peace Action’s 56th

  • 50:00 Bill Clinton
  • 51:00 credit to amy goodman – teacher of journalism
  • 57:00 black sites – prisons
  • 58:30 mogadishu – counter terrorism center for torture and capture and kill programs
  • 59:00 somalia: kill lists executed by local warlords
  • interrogations are done by CIA remotely
  • the bagdad us embassy is the biggest in the worlds and a city of it’s own.

< Dirty Wars (2013)

  • 3:00 “No one is willing to give me more than a list of night time raids.” without knowledge of NATO HQ or police chief
  • 9:00 bullets were taken out of the body with knives by NATO soldiers.
  • 9:30 witnesses were imprisoned by american soldiers
  • 10:00 The interrogants did not wear uniforms and had big muscles.
    • (Reuters) – The growing use of “night raids” by NATO-led and Afghan forces to kill or capture insurgents is one of the most controversial strategies in the Afghan war. www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-a...
  • 12:10 NATO vermutete 50 Taliban in the house of the family of a police man
  • 17:30 Hugh Shelton, retired US general “even a police could be working for both sides” “there should be no investigation”
  • 19:00 Jerome Starkey, times reporter, attacked by NATO
  • 25:00 DOD press briefing: McRaven released to JSOC
    < de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._McRaven
    McRaven scheint der Verantwortliche zu sein für Organisation und Durchführung der Operation Neptune’s Spear, der Aktion, die zum Tod von Osama bin Laden führte. CIA-Direktor Leon Panetta übertrug die Aufgabe an McRaven, der seit 2001 fast ausschließlich an Operationen und Strategien im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus teilgenommen hatte.
  • 27:00 700 night raids
  • Mathhew How resigned after publications about night raids
  • 28:30 Why could JSOC take over war in Afghanistan?
  • 29:00 Cpt. Andrew Exum, 75th Ranger Reg. about JSOC’s rise in Iraq
  • 32:00 dec 2009 5 strikes with >150 casualties ina aden, yemen
  • 33:30 Shekh Saleh Bin Fareed
  • 36:00 “If they kill innocent people and say they are AlQuaida, then we are all Al Quaida.”
  • 37:30 echoes of Gardaz everywhere. fingerprintin leftovers al Majulah – no one expected to look into in remote desert
  • 38:00 reporter Abdulelah Haider Shaye arrested after cover up
  • 39:30 Obama intervened to keep him arrested (according to white house website)
  • 40:20 photo graven + yemen’s president (released on his website)
  • 42:00 intimidations via phone after publications in US
  • 44:00 anonymous JSOC speak out “the world is a battlefield and we are at war. Therefore JSOC can go whereever they please and do whatever they want to do in order to achieve the national security objectives whichever administration happens to be in power.”
    • 45:15 kinetic operations – capture and kill, detail people, even torture
  • 46:00 under Obama JSOC are “harder, faster, quicker with full support of the whitehouse”
  • 47:30 kill lists with american citizens as AlAwlaki – sentenzed to death without trial ore evidence of a crime
  • 49:30 Ron Wyden “Is that classified?” – “he can’t confirm there has been any lethal operation outside the battlefield”
    • “It’s important for the american people to know when the president can kill innocent people and when not.”
  • 51:30 praise on attacks on US on Al Awlaki’s blog
  • 52:00 2001 speache
  • 56:00 after invasion of iraq his tone got critical against the US
  • 57:00 “Have we got to the point that people get killed based on their critic on the nation?”
  • 57:30 he got into military “the black flag” – “the modern imame” calling for jihad
  • 59:00 personally morphed and got target of FBI
  • 1:00:00 the US helped to create the person it now tries to kill.
  • “The war on terror was producing new eneymies wherever it spread. How does a war like that ever end?”
  • 1:02:00 in the evening of Osama’s assassination Gen. Lab, McRaven vice, led operation in the white house against Bin laden
  • 1:03:30 Jack Reed, R-Sen. Rhode Island – are you prepared to widen the war on terror?
  • 1:04:00 Malcolm Nance, covert ops, trainer of navy seals – “if they are too strong, put a hellfire in”
  • 1:05:30 under congressional control? “they don’t want to step into the dark and want to see what is behind the curtain”
  • Joint Special Operations Command became paramilitary arm of the administration.
  • “we created a hell of a hammer and for the rest of our generation this force will continuously search for a nail.”
  • after 911 7 people on the kill list, 45 on the deck of cards, in afghanistan thousands.
  • 1:07:00 kill lists got superseded by pattern based killings, signature strikes “all boys over the age of 15, all men under the age of 70”
  • 1:09:15 US outsourced kill lists to local warlords in somalia and mogadishu as Indha Adde, formerly protecting people on kill list, now changed side

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< Jeremy Scahill www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Die-NSA...
Scahill: Die NSA ist nicht ein Haufen Computernerds, die in Fort Meade herumsitzen und Telefonate abhören. Die NSA ist ein massives Biest von einer Organisation, die eine von Grund auf militärische Mission hat. Wer denkt, das seien nur Geeks mit Kopfhörern, versteht nicht, wie der Sicherheitsapparat der USA funktioniert.
Obama will weg von den großen Militäreinsätzen. Aber er versucht, Strukturen zu schaffen, die gezielte Tötungsmissionen als zentrales Element der amerikanischen Politik etablieren. In gewisser Hinsicht denke ich, das könnte auf lange Sicht mehr Schaden anrichten.

Secrets of the Dirty Wars: What Jeremy Scahill Doesn’t Tell You

critic by James Corbett, June 18, 2013
Some may argue that this history of the dirty wars, while important, is not essential to the understanding of the modern day operations. After all, the current War on Terror dirty war is being led by different people in a different stage of history. But Valentine’s charge is a serious one; either Scahill is deliberately dumbing down the movie—focusing on interminable close-ups of himself and his reactions, using emotional manipulation to “grip” the audience, pretending to not know about the existence of JSOC in order to dramatize his “discovery” for the audience—or, worse yet, he genuinely doesn’t know this history, and the characters behind it. Either way, as the film’s critics note, the CIA—the organization that has been the lynchpin of all such operations in the past and has a documented history of military assets for plausible deniability in denying involvement in such actions—gets off scot-free in this 90 minute “expose” of the war on terror, only being mentioned once or twice, in passing, with excessive focus on JSOC and General William McCraven.
Whether the CIA designed this type of limited hangout or not, it plays into their hands to have a supposedly daring documentarian “exposing” the covert war on terror without identifying the parties and people behind it. Simultaneously, it works out well for Scahill and his cohorts, who get to bask in the mainstream attention that this supposedly taboo subject is—for some reason—receiving.

< film review: Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence by Douglas Valentine / June 7th, 2013
Let me begin with some background not covered in the film. Dirty War derives from La Sale Guerre, the term the French applied to their counter-terror campaign in Algeria, circa 1954-1961. Algeria wanted independence, and France resisted.
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Economic warfare – strangling nations like Cuba, Iraq and Iran in Medieval fashion – is a type of Dirty Warfare beloved by the Great White Fathers who control the world’s finances. Though no less deadly than atomic bombs, or firebombing Dresden, it is easier to sell to the bourgeoisie.
You’ll hear no mention of this in Scahill’s film, nor will you hear any references to Phil Agee, or the countless others who have explained Dirty War to each generation of Americans since World War Two.
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By 1962, as the US expanded its Dirty Wars in the Far East and South America, the military replaced its Office of Special Operations with an up-dated Special Assistant for Counter-insurgency and Special Activities (SACSA). SACSA assigned unconventional warfare forces to the CIA and regular army commanders, who initially resisted. […] (also on counterpunch
The development of psychological warfare and special operations is explained in Michael McClintock’s Secret Warriors (1988).
JSOC’s mission, conducted on the Phoenix model with the CIA, is identifying and destroying terrorists and terror cells worldwide. Paramilitary personnel are often exchanged between JSOC and CIA.
By the early 1980s, CIA and military veterans of the Phoenix program were running counter-insurgency and counter-terror ops worldwide.

Movies

  • The Quiet American
  • Secret Warriors

See also Gladio